Felix Candela was an architect and an autodidact engineer born in 1910 in Madrid, Spain. He was a pioneer of the hyperbolic paraboloid made out of concrete. Besides he was the creator of the formula to calculate the forces to which they're faced when constructed. This formula made possible his famous 3 to 5cm thin concrete membranes. Candela spent most of his career in Mexico. There he accomplish about 869 constructions and design others 1,439 undone projects. Further on he moved to United States becoming a professor of the Illinois College and establishing an international consulting office. Finally he died in 1997 on North Carolina, where he spent the rest of his life.
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